Finland came third time lucky when they beat the Russian Olympic Committee team 2-1 in the men’s ice hockey final to earn the last gold medal of the Beijing Games on Sunday. Finland have long been among the leading ice hockey nations and won three world titles, the last one in 2019. But at the Olympics they were beaten in their two previous finals, by the Soviet Union in 1988 and 2006 to Sweden, before finally succeeding. “Hockey is a big thing in Finland. We have come close a couple of times and it is finally nice to get the first one,” captain Valtteri Filppula said. “I thought we played a g…